From: nospam.Jay.Harris@f664.n229.z1.fidonet.org   
      
   On 14 May 2022, Jay Harris said the following...   
      
    JH> It seems like AOL email still allows SMTP and may actually work if we   
    JH> were able to set the "From" email address to the account name:   
      
   Confirmed.  I setup Thunderbird and forced it to use basic authentication and I   
   was able to send messages about via SMTP:   
      
   mailnews.smtp: Sending message    
   mailnews.smtp: Connecting to smtp://smtp.aol.com:465   
   mailnews.smtp: Connected   
   mailnews.smtp: S: 220 smtp.mail.yahoo.com ESMTP ready   
   mailnews.smtp: C: EHLO [10.0.1.124]   
   mailnews.smtp: S: 250-hermes--canary-production-bf1-579c78cbb7-s7xvc Hello   
   250-PIPELINING   
   250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES   
   250-8BITMIME   
   250-SIZE 41697280   
   250 AUTH PLAIN LOGIN XOAUTH2 OAUTHBEARER   
   mailnews.smtp: Possible auth methods: PLAIN,LOGIN   
   mailnews.smtp: Maximum allowed message size: 41697280   
   mailnews.smtp: Current auth method: PLAIN   
   mailnews.smtp: Authentication via AUTH PLAIN   
   mailnews.smtp: C: Logging suppressed (it probably contained auth information)   
   mailnews.smtp: S: 235 2.7.0 Authentication successful   
   mailnews.smtp: Authentication successful.   
   mailnews.smtp: C: MAIL FROM: BODY=8BITMIME SIZE=419   
   mailnews.smtp: S: 250 2.1.0 Sender  OK   
   mailnews.smtp: MAIL FROM successful, proceeding with 1 recipients   
   [...]   
      
      
   Thunderbird by default wanted to use OAuth2 to log in which brings up a   
   separate webpage where you would log in with your username, password and   
   presumably 2FA/MFA if you had that enabled.   
      
   So it would appear if we could set the From email address then AOL & Yahoo (and   
   sendgrid) would work, but longer term it appears that OAuth2 would need to be   
   implemented which would also allow GMail to be used again:   
      
   https://developers.google.com/gmail/imap/xoauth2-protocol   
      
      
   Jay   
      
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